Quinn totally gets OBBs because, well, SHE TOTALLY WAS ONE!

I'm pretty excited to tell you about OBT member-turned-Ceremony Officiant, Quinn Russell. After using Offbeat Bride to plan her 2008 wedding, she's now spreading the love by performing one-of-a-kind weddings and commitment ceremonies in the Pacific Northwest.

Quinn is a graduate of the Celebrant Foundation and Institute where she studied ritual and ceremony from many different traditions. So we're talking creative ceremonies that are unique, and speak to exactly who you guys are and what EXACTLY you want to express. She's also a GLBTQ ally and is excited to support all sorts of loving partnerships.

So if you're looking for  a hip-tattooed-minister who can also help you make a beautiful ceremony AND add all the other creative, unique things you want, too… head over to her website and then thank your lucky stars you found a fellow Offbeat Bride to guide you through it all!

Meet New York celebrant Emily King! Her wedding celebrant duties have taken her from summer camps in the Catskills to Chinese restaurants on the Lower East Side, to the Equestrian Center in Burbank to the beach on Coney Island, from the swankiest gay wedding in the Hamptons to an intercontinental, interracial, interfaith wedding in a community vegetable garden in New Paltz.

As an Ordained Civil Celebrant Emily specializes in bridging cultures and languages (she's a published translator of French, German, and Italian texts, and has studied American Sign Language, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese) to create unique wedding and commitment ceremonies that completely reflect a couple's taste, culture, imagination, and independent way of life and love. She's officiated weddings gay and straight, both simple and ornate.

Extra bonus? Emily offers a sliding scale discount for struggling artists, graduate students and educators!

To learn more about Emily's celebrant work and how she might be able to help you craft your New York wedding ceremony, click the photo below!

The offbeat bride: Sarah Creagh Horth, writer

Her offbeat partner: Roland Horth, Mechanical Engineer

Location & date of wedding: Marine Parade of Napier, New Zealand on December 16th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: We didn't tell anyone and ran away to another town to get married. We love our families but as they live in different countries and due to timing constraints, we just decided to get on with it.

Continue reading "Sarah & Roland's Art Deco Elopement Wedding" →

The offbeat bride: Natalie, Graphic Artist

Her offbeat partner: Nick, Finance Officer

Location & date of wedding: Newstead Park Rotunda, Brisbane, Australia on April 19th, 2008

What made our wedding offbeat: I wore a red gown that I designed myself that was inspired in part by the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland, Victorian fashions and Cyndi Lauper's "She's so Unusual" album cover.

Continue reading "Natalie & Nick's Red Queen Garden Party Wedding" →

New Jersey celebrant Jessie Blum specializes in crafting wedding ceremonies for nontraditional couples who want something spectacular. She says, "The central theme is always the couple's original love story, and personalized touches are imbued through the entire ceremony. I aim to make the ceremony that you would create for yourself."

Jessie is a certified Celebrant, an ordained non-denominational minister, and authorized to perform weddings & civil unions in New Jersey. Take a look at her gallery and testimonials from couples — you'll see that she definitely gets nontrad needs!

Eclectic Unions honors all backgrounds and traditions, and Jessie is even offering a promotion with 10% off for clients who mention they found her on offbeatbride.com!